Improvement in plate-lifters



OBRA FOSTER.

Plate-Lifters.

No. 154,384. Patented Aug. 25, 1874- INVENTOR;

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ORRA I. FOSTER, OF SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLATE-LIFTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 154.384, dated August 25, 1874; application filed July 8, 1873. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORRA I. FOSTER, of Salem, State ofNew Hampshire, have invented a Plate and Stove-Cover Lifter, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to an improved kitchen utensil, the object being to combine in one instrument a stove-cover and plate lifter.

Figure 1 shows the utensil as used for lifting stove-covers; Fig. 2, the same in position for removing plates, the plate being represented by the dotted lines.

The invention consists of two rods, hinged at A, bent in a suitable form to make ahandle atB, and then at right angles, so as to have portions 0 D, which are adapted to grasp the edge of a plate. These rods have attached to them aprojection or hook, E, of the right form to raise a stove-cover. This hook or projection is made by attaching asuitably-curved piece of metal, a, to the end of one rod, having an opening, b, into which fits the end of the other rod. This latter rod has its end k flattened and wedge-shaped, so that it will pass into and fit closely in the opening 12. This part of the invention is shown better in Fig. 3,'which is a section on line 0 d of Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-- The combination, with a plate-lifter constructed as described, of a hook or projection,

E, applied at the ends of the rods B, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

' ORRA I. FOSTER. Witnesses: v

EDW. DUMMER, JOSEPH B. GARDINER. 

